May 2018 News Archive

Eight Union College seniors were chosen to represent the College's Minerva Fellows program.

They will travel the globe to work in developing countries while paired up with a social entrepreneurial organization. The students will work for nine months and return to the College and live in a Minerva house for one month, where they will participate in a social entrepreneurial course and educate current students about their experiences abroad.

The campus and community are invited to attend a symposium and concert on June 5 focused on “Hamilton and the American Story.”

Students from this year’s humanities super seminar will offer presentations on a wide range of topics connected to Hamilton and American identity, responding creatively to the question of how the musical engages with issues confronted by the U.S. today. The presentations will run from 5 to 7 p.m., with a short break after for dinner.

Lynn Pasquerella, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, will deliver the keynote address at the College's annual symposium on integrating a liberal education with engineering.

The two-day symposium kicks off Friday afternoon, June 1, with sessions in the Wold and Olin centers. President Stephen C. Ainlay will give welcoming remarks at 6 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

Pasquerella’s talk, “Escaping Westworld,” follows.

Lynn Pasquerella, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities

A Memorial Day remembrance will be held Monday, May 28 at 1 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.

The event will honor those who have died during military service and those who continue to serve our country. Strom Thacker, the Stephen J. and Diane K. Ciesinski Dean of Faculty, will deliver remarks. The Garnet Minstrelles will sing the national anthem and Nick Meixsell ’19 will play taps.

The College mourns the passing of Ekram Hassib, professor of electrical and computer engineering emeritus, who died May 20, 2017, at the age of 74.

Ekram, who taught at Union from 1980 until 2011, held a Ph.D. from Warsaw Technical University (Poland), an M.S.E.E. from Al-Azhar University (Egypt), and a post graduate diploma in electronic circuits and communications, also from Al-Azhar. He earned a B.S.E.E. from Cairo University (Egypt).

After almost a year of working with a professional choir tour company on Long Island, 21 weeks of intensive rehearsals, and a lot of fundraising, the Union College Choir achieved a major goal: a nine-day concert tour in Europe.